The Year In Books
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amari_zThis is probably of little interest to anyone but me and my ongoing futile attempts to keep myself from buying a gazillion books, but here's a list of books I read this year. It is both somewhat impressive to me given my schedule, and yet also depressing given my grandiose appetites.
It's what I can figure out (did I really read nothing in January and February?), including some of the less than literary stuff that I don't usually bother to include in my shame lists (and most of which I've probably forgotten anyway). Except for some at the end, I think I've mentioned most of these somewhere in my journal, but if anyone wants commentary or recs, feel free to ask.
1. Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty
2. Keiichi Sigsawa, Kino no Tabi
3. Kazuya Minekura, Wild Adapter 1-2
4. Robert Graves: Good-Bye To All That
5. Paul Fussell: The Great War and Modern Memory
6. Pat Barker, The Eye in the Door [reread]
7. Patricia Bray, The First Betrayal
8. P.D. James, Children of Men
9. Mark Salzman, Lying Awake
10. R.M. Meluch, The Myriad
11. R.M. Meluch, The Wolf Star
12. CLAMP, Rg Veda 1-10
13. Rory Stewart, The Prince of the Marshes
14. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Purple Hibiscus
15. Thrity Umrigar, The Space Between Us
16. M.J. Hyland, Carry Me Down
17. Hisham Matar, In the Country of Men
18. Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns
19. Naeem Murr, The Perfect Man
20. Michael Cunningham, Specimen Days
21. Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited
22. Cormac McCarthy, The Road
23. Carol Berg, Flesh and Spirit
24. Saira Shah: The Storyteller's Daughter
25. Mohsin Hamid, The Reluctant Fundamentalist
26. Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart
27. Paul Cartledge, The Spartans
28. Donald Kagan, The Peloponnesian War
29. J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
30. J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Society of the Phoenix [reread]
31. J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-blood Prince[reread]
32. J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone[reread]
33. Natsuki Takaya, Fruits Basket 1-16
34. Death Note 1-12
35. Philip Caputo, A Rumor of War
36. Keith Donohue, The Stolen Child
37. Evelyn Waugh, Men at War
38. Ha Jin, Ocean of Words
39. Kenzaburo Oe, Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids
40. Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried
41. Charles C. Mann, 1491
42. Alexandra Fuller, Don't let's Go to the Dogs Tonight
43. Laurence Bergreen, Over the Edge of the World
44. Chinua Achebe, Arrow of God
45. John Kelly, The Great Mortality
46. Frank Kermode, The Age of Shakespeare
47. A.N. Wilson, London
48. Karen Armstrong, A Short History of Myth
49. Richard Bessel, Nazism and War
50. Michael Sturmer, The German Empire
51. Ian Burma: Inventing Japan
52. Richard Fletcher, The Cross and Crescent
53. George Mosse, Fallen Soldiers
54. Louise Levathes, When China Ruled the Sea
55. Susan Whitfield, Life Along the Silk Road
56. Barbara Ehrenreich, Bait and Switch
57. Paul Cartledge, Alexander the Great
58. R.K. Narayan, Malgudi Days
59. Peter Green, The Hellenistic Age
60. Chinua Achebe, No Longer at Ease
61. John Ellis, His Excellency George Washington
62. Snorri Sturluson, The Prose Edda
63. Georges Roux, Ancient Iraq
64. Geraldine Leick, The Babylonians
65. Karen Miller, The Innocent Mage
66. Karen Miller, The Awakened Mage
67. Pamela Gien, The Syringa Tree
68. Anne Enright, The Gathering
69. Uzodinma Iweala, Beasts of No Nation
70. Ian McEwan, Atonement
71. Penelope Fitzgerald, The Bookshop
72. Penelope Fitzgerald, The Gate of Angels
73. Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake
74. Peter Ackroyd, The Fall of Troy
75. Peter Carey, His Illegal Self
It's what I can figure out (did I really read nothing in January and February?), including some of the less than literary stuff that I don't usually bother to include in my shame lists (and most of which I've probably forgotten anyway). Except for some at the end, I think I've mentioned most of these somewhere in my journal, but if anyone wants commentary or recs, feel free to ask.
1. Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty
2. Keiichi Sigsawa, Kino no Tabi
3. Kazuya Minekura, Wild Adapter 1-2
4. Robert Graves: Good-Bye To All That
5. Paul Fussell: The Great War and Modern Memory
6. Pat Barker, The Eye in the Door [reread]
7. Patricia Bray, The First Betrayal
8. P.D. James, Children of Men
9. Mark Salzman, Lying Awake
10. R.M. Meluch, The Myriad
11. R.M. Meluch, The Wolf Star
12. CLAMP, Rg Veda 1-10
13. Rory Stewart, The Prince of the Marshes
14. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Purple Hibiscus
15. Thrity Umrigar, The Space Between Us
16. M.J. Hyland, Carry Me Down
17. Hisham Matar, In the Country of Men
18. Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns
19. Naeem Murr, The Perfect Man
20. Michael Cunningham, Specimen Days
21. Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited
22. Cormac McCarthy, The Road
23. Carol Berg, Flesh and Spirit
24. Saira Shah: The Storyteller's Daughter
25. Mohsin Hamid, The Reluctant Fundamentalist
26. Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart
27. Paul Cartledge, The Spartans
28. Donald Kagan, The Peloponnesian War
29. J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
30. J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Society of the Phoenix [reread]
31. J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-blood Prince[reread]
32. J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone[reread]
33. Natsuki Takaya, Fruits Basket 1-16
34. Death Note 1-12
35. Philip Caputo, A Rumor of War
36. Keith Donohue, The Stolen Child
37. Evelyn Waugh, Men at War
38. Ha Jin, Ocean of Words
39. Kenzaburo Oe, Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids
40. Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried
41. Charles C. Mann, 1491
42. Alexandra Fuller, Don't let's Go to the Dogs Tonight
43. Laurence Bergreen, Over the Edge of the World
44. Chinua Achebe, Arrow of God
45. John Kelly, The Great Mortality
46. Frank Kermode, The Age of Shakespeare
47. A.N. Wilson, London
48. Karen Armstrong, A Short History of Myth
49. Richard Bessel, Nazism and War
50. Michael Sturmer, The German Empire
51. Ian Burma: Inventing Japan
52. Richard Fletcher, The Cross and Crescent
53. George Mosse, Fallen Soldiers
54. Louise Levathes, When China Ruled the Sea
55. Susan Whitfield, Life Along the Silk Road
56. Barbara Ehrenreich, Bait and Switch
57. Paul Cartledge, Alexander the Great
58. R.K. Narayan, Malgudi Days
59. Peter Green, The Hellenistic Age
60. Chinua Achebe, No Longer at Ease
61. John Ellis, His Excellency George Washington
62. Snorri Sturluson, The Prose Edda
63. Georges Roux, Ancient Iraq
64. Geraldine Leick, The Babylonians
65. Karen Miller, The Innocent Mage
66. Karen Miller, The Awakened Mage
67. Pamela Gien, The Syringa Tree
68. Anne Enright, The Gathering
69. Uzodinma Iweala, Beasts of No Nation
70. Ian McEwan, Atonement
71. Penelope Fitzgerald, The Bookshop
72. Penelope Fitzgerald, The Gate of Angels
73. Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake
74. Peter Ackroyd, The Fall of Troy
75. Peter Carey, His Illegal Self
